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Welsh Women's Aid National Quality Service Standards introductory document dated February 2018.

• ONE ITEM IS CLOSED FOR 82 YEARS FROM DATE OF LAST ENTRY. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 EXEMPTION (SECTION 40) (PERSONAL INFORMATION). ***

Material relating to domestic violence and violence towards women in general, including leaflets and posters advertising resource contact details; reports, analyses and parliamentary inquiries; and guideline publications relating to issues of violence and abuse, including those involving minority or marginalised groups such as lesbian, transgender, ethnic minority and Traveller women.

Papers donated by the Aberystwyth, Pontypridd and Cardiff branches of Welsh Women's Aid. They include material relating to the constitution, corporate structure, strategic development and codes of practice of Welsh Women's Aid; records of its Management Committee and of numerous departmental meetings; internal and external correspondence; accounting, fundraising and other administrative papers; material celebrating Welsh Women's Aid's twenty-first, twenty-fifth and fortieth anniversaries; and individual branch archives of Welsh Women's Aid, all of which reference the issues affecting women and their children who access Women's Aid, such as domestic violence, social welfare and law and legislation.

There is considerable overlap of subject-matter within sections of the archive: for example, corporate and work reports, statistics and questionnaires, as well as material relating to violence against women, children/families, housing and benefits appear under multiple sections, while records of individual group meetings such as Employment and Finance or material relating to accounts, conferences, training courses, etc frequently appear under details of Management Committee meetings, Annual Reviews and so forth.

See under Cardiff Women's Aid Archive: Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales for correspondence and other material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's decision to deposit papers with the Women's Archive of Wales.

** NOTE THAT SOME SECTIONS OF THIS ARCHIVE HAVE BEEN EMBARGOED FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME: SEE UNDER INDIVIDUAL HEADINGS ***

NOTE THAT SOME SECTIONS OF THIS ARCHIVE HAVE BEEN EMBARGOED FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME: SEE UNDER INDIVIDUAL HEADINGS

Papers donated by the Aberystwyth branch of Welsh Women's Aid. They include material relating to the constitution, corporate structure, strategic development and codes of practice of Welsh Women's Aid; records of its Management Committee and of numerous departmental meetings; internal and external correspondence; accounting, fundraising and other administrative papers; and individual branch archives of Welsh Women's Aid, all of which reference the issues affecting women and their children who access Women's Aid, such as domestic violence, social welfare and law and legislation.

Note that not all material contained within this section may be directly related to the donor (Aberystwyth) branch.

Jane Hutt (b. 1949) was one of the founder members of Welsh Women's Aid and was appointed as coordinator of the group in January 1978. She is currently (September 2021) a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Minister for Social Justice since 2021. In her capacity as Welsh Women's Aid co-ordinator, Jane Hutt is frequently referenced throughout this archive.

A series of bilingual A3-sized laminated posters relating to events marking the fortieth anniversary of Welsh Women's Aid (1978-2018).

* ONE ITEM UNDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN EMBARGOED UNTIL 2081 **

Papers donated by the Cardiff branch of Welsh Women's Aid. They include material relating to the constitution, corporate structure and service development of Welsh Women's Aid; reports and statistics, records of meetings and conference information; material relating to funding and fundraising, training and recruitment; and information, guidelines and discussion relating to issues affecting women and children, such as domestic violence, law and legislation and social welfare issues.

Note that not all material contained within this section may be directly related to the donor (Cardiff) branch.

Jane Hutt (b. 1949) was one of the founder members of Welsh Women's Aid and was appointed as coordinator of the group in January 1978. She is currently (September 2021) a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Minister for Social Justice since 2021. In her capacity as Welsh Women's Aid co-ordinator, Jane Hutt is frequently referenced throughout this archive.

Material relating to women's rights and issues within Wales and worldwide, including health and wellbeing. Material of a similar nature is to be found throughout this archive, but note especially under Domestic violence/Violence against women.

Two printed and bound poetry anthologies and one loose poem by women survivors of domestic abuse.

Material relating to housing, particularly council/social housing.

General administration papers relating to Welsh Women's Aid, which include information leaflets, booklets and posters and an account of setting up the first Women's Aid refuge in Wales in 1974.

Material relating to events marking the fortieth anniversary of Welsh Women's Aid (1978-2018), including the launch of the Future Forty/Deugain Ymlaen campaign to end violence against women.

Material relating to welfare payments, housing and council tax, particularly in relation to women and children accessing Women's Aid services.

Material relating to conferences held or attended by Welsh Women's Aid, 1982-2017 (one conference without a readily apparent date). All bar two of the conferences (Gwent Domestic Abuse Pathfinder Project national conference and awards 2013 and Welsh Government conference [2000x2010]) appear to have been organised by either Women's Aid (ie UK-wide) (in the case of the 1988 international conference) or Welsh Women's Aid. In two instances (events held 2016 and 2017) the title 'conference' does not occur but may be inferred through description and content.

Material relating to what appears to be a conference entitled Preventing ACEs [adverse childhood experiences]: Opportunities for collaboration between specialist violence against women services and the public sector held at an unspecified location in 2017 (no further details of date apparent).

Welsh Women's Aid annual reports, 1982/3-2016.

Material relating to what appears to be a conference entitled Domestic abuse: responding to coercive control in Wales held in Cardiff, 2 March 2016.

Material relating to benefit payments as they relate to women living in Welsh Women's Aid refuges.

Reports and statistics relating to Welsh Women's Aid, which include a report on access to health services for women in refuges and a BAWSO (Black Association of Women Step Out) impact report, together with more general reports concerning issues such as domestic violence, housing and welfare payments.

Material relating to law and legislation as it relates to Women's Aid and to women victims of domestic abuse.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid conference 2015, titled Still We Rise: Preventing violence against women in Wales, held in Cardiff, 27-28 March 2015.